Thursday evening, a bit tired and watching another episode of "Earthflight" , totally fascinating documentary on the migration of birds around our planet. The photography is brilliant but the sequences taken by the microlite pilots who spent months working with the birds is absorbing.
The story line by David Tennant is very good and the way they have linked the interactions between the various animals is clever, ie the brown bears, hares, fish - and the landmarks such as the Bass rock, Isle Mont St Michel, Loch Ness - hundreds and hundreds of hours of filming all condensed into a fascinating hour. There was an amazing sequence where several species of birds teamed up to drive off a marauding polar bear who was eating chicks.
Wednesday night I did make it to Esk 42 RA at Dalkeith, nice to see the companions again after the Xmas recess, a good attendance and instead of having a candidate we had an excellent lecture by Andy McKeen on the twelve banners of the tribes of Israel - never heard it before and found it very interesting. Could say that the highlight of the evening was the presentation of Honorary Membership to David Weir of Dundas Gorebridge, an extremely well deserved recipient. For once Davy had to accept praise instead of the usual off the cuff friendly "insults".
This morning we were off to town early and attended the funeral service of my Uncle Walter at Warriston Crematorium. There were a number of friends present and I have to compliment the Minister on a lovely service - he was very good with an excellent oratory - may you now rest in peace Walter.
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